Starry Eyes
Written and directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer
USA, 2014
This film is at its very core a success story. A very demented, gory, horrifying and darkly comical success story – one with tinges of satanic cult horror wrapped in psychological terror. The plot follows a young aspiring actress, Sarah, as she is called back to audition for a horror film that is being produced by a mysterious production company that pushes her to her limits – a dark exchange for fame and fortune.
The film works as much as comedy as it does multiple kinds of horror. The well-executed pitch of heightened reality that co-writers/directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer achieve allow them to play each scene for maximum thrills, scares and laughs. Even at the most grotesque moments of body horror, you can’t help but laugh in shock at what you’re witnessing. You’re laughing because you’re horrified,...
Written and directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer
USA, 2014
This film is at its very core a success story. A very demented, gory, horrifying and darkly comical success story – one with tinges of satanic cult horror wrapped in psychological terror. The plot follows a young aspiring actress, Sarah, as she is called back to audition for a horror film that is being produced by a mysterious production company that pushes her to her limits – a dark exchange for fame and fortune.
The film works as much as comedy as it does multiple kinds of horror. The well-executed pitch of heightened reality that co-writers/directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer achieve allow them to play each scene for maximum thrills, scares and laughs. Even at the most grotesque moments of body horror, you can’t help but laugh in shock at what you’re witnessing. You’re laughing because you’re horrified,...
- 11/17/2014
- by Dylan Griffin
- SoundOnSight
Although Hammer Films will always be associated with British horror, the studio did have stiff competition. Amicus specialised in the successful horror anthologies and Us counterparts American International Pictures established a permanent UK base in the mid sixties. Other smaller independents took their own bite from the cherry tree of horror with some success, the best known being Tigon Films.
Tigon has received some belated recognition in recent years. Andy Boot’s book on British horror Fragments of Fear devotes a chapter to the company while John Hamilton’s excellent book Beast in the Cellar covers the varied career of Tigon’s charismatic founder Tony Tenser.
Like Hammer’s Sir James Carreras, Tenser was one of the British Film Industry’s great entrepreneurs. Born in London to poor Lithuanian immigrants and a movie fan since childhood, he was an ambitious man with a natural talent for showmanship. Combining shrewd business...
Tigon has received some belated recognition in recent years. Andy Boot’s book on British horror Fragments of Fear devotes a chapter to the company while John Hamilton’s excellent book Beast in the Cellar covers the varied career of Tigon’s charismatic founder Tony Tenser.
Like Hammer’s Sir James Carreras, Tenser was one of the British Film Industry’s great entrepreneurs. Born in London to poor Lithuanian immigrants and a movie fan since childhood, he was an ambitious man with a natural talent for showmanship. Combining shrewd business...
- 2/18/2014
- Shadowlocked
Ray Austin's 1972 British horror exploitation film Virgin Witch gets a Blu-ray release today from Redemption. The story follows two sisters who head to a country manor for a fashion photo shoot and end up recruited by a coven of witches — led by a lascivious lesbian and a pervy doctor. The film's home entertainment release inspired us to look back on several of horror cinema's sexiest witches that hail from the same era. The '60s and '70s occult craze created a coven of memorably seductive sorceresses, which you can become acquainted with past the break. Leave us your picks below. Daughters of Satan Tom Selleck's pants are so tight his head might explode and Barra Grant can't act her...
- 3/13/2012
- FEARnet
Kino Lorber's recent acquisition of the Redemption Films' catalog was highlighted by the bundled releases of many of Jean Rollin's early films. However, Redemption goes far beyond just one filmmaker. This Tuesday sees the release of a couple of British horrors with their own reputations, quite apart from Rollin. First, from 1972 comes the supernatural/occult chiller, Virgin Witch, starring future British TV stars Vicki Michelle and Ann Michelle, unrelated. The second is a first wave slasher film from 1978 by Alan Birkinshaw called Killer's Moon. Between the pair there is nothing extraordinary, but as a pair, they reflect both the predominant attitudes in cinema in their own times as well as the vast difference a few years can make in standards and styles.Virgin Witch is...
- 3/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
A decent helping of horror DVDs is coming your way this Tuesday, July 29th, 2008... check 'em out!
Antisocial Behavior (2007)
Directed by Vinson Pike
Ever since a traumatic accident when he was a child, Jakob Kelser has been alone, shunning the outside world and ignoring everyone who tries to connect with him. When a gang of teenagers makes him their new target, all of his pent-up rage is released, and now not a single soul in his neighborhood is safe from his vengeance. Buy it here!
Bloody Moon (1981)
Directed by Jess Franco
Incest, voyeurism and disco; only from Jess Franco can you expect to get all three in one movie. Bloody Moon was Franco’s answer to the stalk-n-slash trend of the late 70’s/early 80’s, but it’s nothing like any of the Black Christmas copycats that came out in that time frame. Fully remastered in high def and featuring...
Antisocial Behavior (2007)
Directed by Vinson Pike
Ever since a traumatic accident when he was a child, Jakob Kelser has been alone, shunning the outside world and ignoring everyone who tries to connect with him. When a gang of teenagers makes him their new target, all of his pent-up rage is released, and now not a single soul in his neighborhood is safe from his vengeance. Buy it here!
Bloody Moon (1981)
Directed by Jess Franco
Incest, voyeurism and disco; only from Jess Franco can you expect to get all three in one movie. Bloody Moon was Franco’s answer to the stalk-n-slash trend of the late 70’s/early 80’s, but it’s nothing like any of the Black Christmas copycats that came out in that time frame. Fully remastered in high def and featuring...
- 7/28/2008
- by Johnny Butane
- DreadCentral.com
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